Descriptions of Youth Program Elements:
- Tutoring, study skills and dropout prevent strategies are designed to improve the academic knowledge and skills of youth in specific areas.
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Alternative secondary school offerings allow youth to learn effectively and efficiently and on their own.
- Summer employment opportunities linked to academic and occupational learning include work experiences that occur between May 15 and September 30.
- Paid and unpaid work experience are short-term, planned, structured learning experiences that occur in a workplace and are focused on career exploration and the development of work readiness skills.
- Occupation skills training constitutes an organized program of study that provides specific vocational skills that lead to proficiency in performing actual tasks and technical functions required by certain occupational fields at entry, intermediate, or advanced levels.
- Leadership development is a broad set of activities that encourage responsibility, employability, and other positive social behaviors.
- Supportive services include assistance such as transportation, child care, dependent care, and housing that is necessary to enable an individual to participate in WIA youth program activities.
- Adult mentoring is a one-to-one supportive relationships between an adult and a youth that is based on trust.
- Comprehensive guidance and counseling is a process of helping youth make and implement informed educational, occupational, and life choices.
- Follow-up services are activities after exiting the program to monitor youths’ success during their transition to employment or further education and to provide assistance as needed for a successful transition.